Category: 1. Russia

By Michael BLUM

Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 29, 2025

A new draft law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose support is crucial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked uproar in Israel, with the opposition…

by AFP Staff Writers

Amman (AFP) Nov 27, 2025

Jordan on Thursday asked Russia to stop recruiting its citizens for its armed forces after two of them were killed fighting for Moscow.

In a statement, the foreign ministry called the…

by AFP Staff Writers

Paris (AFP) Nov 20, 2025

France’s top general on Thursday faced a backlash across the political spectrum after warning that the country must be ready to “lose its children” against the background of the threat…

By Mathieu Rabechault

Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2025

The growing threat from Russia and the risk of renewed conflict in Europe have thrown a spotlight on the continent’s varied military service models.

Some countries never scrapped…

by AFP Staff Writers

Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 24, 2025

Israel’s military announced the dismissal of three generals and disciplinary actions against several other senior officers over their failure to prevent the October 2023 attack by…

by AFP Staff Writers

Moscow (AFP) Nov 20, 2025

The Russian army claimed on Thursday to have again captured the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, a key Kyiv bastion in the eastern Kharkiv region where Russia’s soldiers have been steadily…

By Francesco Fontemaggi with Mathieu Rabechault in Paris

Varces-Allieres-Et-Risset, France (AFP) Nov 27, 2025

France will introduce a voluntary military service of 10 months beginning next year, President Emmanuel Macron said…

By Mathieu Rabechault, Fabien Zamora and Stuart Williams

Paris (AFP) Nov 25, 2025

President Emmanuel Macron is set this week to announce that France is restoring military service on a voluntary basis in the face of the growing…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is stepping up global efforts to thrash out a peace agreement, sending a negotiating team to the United States and planning a trip to Paris himself as his government battles a corruption scandal and…

Ukrainian sea drones struck two oil tankers off the Turkish coast in a dramatic escalation, with the tanker Virat sustaining a second hit only a day after the initial attack.

The tanker Virat, already damaged in an earlier…